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To: Chas. who wrote (39263)	8/26/2008 1:48:00 PM
From: Rolla Coasta	Respond to of 217984

Their present day leadership affects many surrounding economies and they are in the process of becoming a major player/controller of Oil to Europe... It is so puzzling to me in why Canada can't provide energy to Europe. I don't believe Canada has no more oil reserve than in the Caspian Sea. This is one heck conspiracy behind peak oil theory imo.

To: Chas. who wrote (39263)	8/26/2008 2:55:22 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217984

TBILISI, GEORGIA – Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,” the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion. Virtually everyone is wrong. Georgia didn't start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the two sides in 1994. At the same time, the Russian military sent its invasion force bearing down on Georgia from the north side of the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian side of the border through the Roki tunnel and into Georgia. This happened before Saakashvili sent additional troops to South Ossetia and allegedly started the war. michaeltotten.com “A key tool that the Soviet Union used to keep its empire together,” Worms said to me, “was pitting ethnic groups against one another. They did this extremely skillfully in the sense that they never generated ethnic wars within their own territory. But when the Soviet Union collapsed it became an essential Russian policy to weaken the states on its periphery by activating the ethnic fuses they planted. They tried it in Moldova. There it worked, and now we have Transnitria. They tried it in Armenia and Azerbaijan and it went beyond their wildest dreams and we ended up with a massive, massive war. And they tried it in two territories in Georgia, Further the proof is in the currency markets - some big holder of EUR started selling huge amounts of EUR on August 6. The EUR dropped from a high of 1.5550 to 1.48 by Monday - Russia was a major holder of EUR - The events about the war only trickled in the media over the weekend